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ROBBERY runs are the bread and butter of good police work. Your first challenge is to elicit the facts and a description of the culprits as rapidly as possible, then to flash the information over the radio, and finally to launch a search. Since the closure rate is fairly high when lookouts are flashed within two or three minutes of a crime, and increasingly low there after, speed is of the essence. Just as important, you have to apply some intelligence to the question of where a robber would be likely to flee. Even with speed and intelligence, the overwhelming...
...inclined to the view that the creation of a new Faculty (for social research) would foster a greater sense of commitment on a University-wide basis, and would elicit greater support from all segments of society than could another Institute or Center...
...would like to see community-wide debate on the issues raised in this plan. We hope that our ideas will elicit enough student and faculty support to induce the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to implement the plan, or at least its essential features. As Dean May said at the end of September, the Committee on Undergraduate Education "must eventually present a package for the Faculty to vote either up or down." Mindful of the flaws inherent in piecemeal reform, we have offered a package that touches on all the issues that have been debated in curriculum discussions over...
...political robber or a criminal robber, and he has apparently chosen the former. If his self-characterization as a radical is genuine, there is some question over why he waited until after what police allege was his fourth robbery before declaring his politics. The decision appears pragmatic, designed to elicit the most support and admiration for himself now that his bank robbing days are over...
...both of these instances, brilliant young defense attorneys (only last summer a revised Uniform Code of Military Justice guaranteed defendants representation) managed to trap hostile witnesses into contradicting their own testimony and that of others. In both instances they also managed to elicit evidence that the Army had purposely forced the defendants into disobedience, or else refused to take simple steps to head off their action...